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2x3D, developed by the Shirai Lab at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, is a system that lets the same screen be viewed simultaneously by people who want to watch it in 2D and 3D.

Whereas conventional passive 3D systems use polarizing filters for both the left and right eyes, this system uses a special picture-generating algorithm. Pictures for the left eye can be seen with the naked eye and only pictures for the right eye need to be viewed through a polarizing filter.

Iiyama announced that it will start shipping its latest budget 5 fingers touch capable monitor in Japan with the ProLite T2253MTS. Sold by Mouse Computer Japan (MCJ), the ProLite T2253MTS is a 21.5” LED Backlight full HD TN Panel Monitor with a 1000:1 contrast ratio, a 220cd/m2 brightness, a 5ms response time and comes with a pair of 1W speakers.

Announced at around 35,800 Yen, this touch capable monitor comes with the usual culprit which are a DVI-D, D-Sub HDMI and USB interface.